As word processing software becomes ever more
advanced, with the ability to correct syntax and
spelling errors, these familiar programmes begin to
impose a standardised corporate language onto our
writing - subtly altering its meaning. Working with
the programmer Jon Pollard, Takahashi has
produced a new and fully functioning online version
of these platforms which undermines this
dehumanising process. Reclaiming the initiative
back from the software, Word Perhect presents an
idiosyncratic hand drawn interface leading to a set of
functioning but strangely altered tools.